A Las Vegas woman was tied to a chair for six hours, had her head shaved and was forced to take pills and drink alcoholic drinks while her captors demanded a PSP as ransom, according to local news reports yesterday. Both suspects are still at large. »12/21/13 3:50pm 12/21/13 3:50pm

Torture sequences in games are old news—many major franchises have included it in some capacity, from the classics like Metal Gear Solid to some more recent big titles like Grand Theft Auto and Splinter Cell. The context is usually the same—torture is explored as a military practice (or a critique of military stuff),… »10/29/13 6:00pm 10/29/13 6:00pm

While Metal Gear Solid is a franchise that has included torture in the past, not only are more and more games including it recently—GTAand Splinter Cell,for example—it's still a sensitive subject that's hard to pull off tastefully. »9/20/13 5:30pm 9/20/13 5:30pm

One of the more inflammatory aspects of 2010's Splinter Cell: Conviction was the fact that it included a number of gruesome interactive torture sequences. The game, in which you play as rogue spec-ops badass Sam Fisher, featured a number of ticking time-bomb scenarios in which Sam would torture various bad guys to get… »1/30/13 8:00pm 1/30/13 8:00pm

Which video game console had the most resilient cartridges, the Super Nintendo or the Sega Genesis? Blistered Thumbs' Rinry lets her sadistic side shine as she boils, burns, freezes, and drops a pair of games to determine the toughest. »1/31/11 11:00am 1/31/11 11:00am

Richard Bartle - co-author of the original MMO game
MUD »11/25/08 5:30pm 11/25/08 5:30pm, but you knew that already, right? - has been playing Wrath of the Lich King and does not like what he has found. Specifically, he is less than impressed with "The Art of Persuasion" a quest that requires you to use a Neural Needler to extract information from an…

I don't need to be able to play Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords on anything else, okay? It's already eaten away at my life on the DS, PSP, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, mobile phone, and PC to the point where every month I have at least one Puzzle Quest-related dream. Now TransGaming has announced their expansion…
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